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University of Regina. Academic Review Task Force. From reflection to renewal: Report of the Academic Review Task Force. Regina, Sask: The University, 1988.
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Alekseev, Sergey, and Galina Kosteckaya. Life safety: innovations in teaching methods. Workshop. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1072205.
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This publication is an integrative textbook covering pedagogical approaches to the formation of methodological competence of life safety teachers. It includes 132 practical works and 21 professional tasks, reflecting various sections of the BZHD (OBZH) training course and various modules of specialized educational programs of higher professional education. An attempt is made to form an innovative approach among students and teachers to the methodology of teaching and educating life safety, developing their own author's methodological style of teaching.
Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation.
For undergraduate and graduate students studying in the direction of "Pedagogical education" (profile "Education in the field of life safety"), as well as the teaching staff of the higher school, teachers and students of organizations of additional professional education.
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Burmistrova, Lyudmila. Accounting. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1045886.
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the textbook reveals the basics of accounting and reporting. This knowledge will help economists and managers to better understand the work of accountants, quickly and carefully make management decisions based on the processes occurring in the organization's finances.
It contains the most important concepts and definitions. Raises the main problems related to the organization and maintenance of accounting, reporting, financial management based on analysis and management accounting. In addition, the issues of taxes and tax accounting at the enterprise were touched upon.
The material is presented in an accessible language, with examples and calculations. The methods of accounting and analysis are given. With the help of control questions, tests, tasks, the skills of reflecting business operations in the accounting and financial analysis system are fixed.
For students and teachers, as well as anyone interested in accounting issues.
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Rasskazov, Leonid. History and methodology of legal science. ru: Publishing Center RIOR, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.29039/02064-7.
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The textbook systematically highlights the problems of the history and methodology of legal science. It analyzes the history of foreign and Russian legal science, examines philosophical and legal theories and the fundamental principles of cognition that make up the methodological basis of jurisprudence. Considerable attention is paid to the use of methods for performing a scientific task, with the help of which knowledge is obtained that brings it closer to reflecting objective reality. It is addressed, first of all, to masters of law faculties. This publication can be useful for graduate students, applicants and anyone interested in the problems of legal science.
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Semenova, Vera. Gender psychology. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1059426.
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The textbook reveals the main range of issues of a new branch of psychological science — gender psychology. It is based on the author's lecture course, which has been read to psychology students for many years.
The textbook is structured in such a way that students can master the most important concepts and provisions of the gender approach, which forms the theoretical and methodological basis of gender psychology, its subject, as well as the skills of gender analysis of social reality and the psyche of a modern person. The article presents the problems reflecting the structure of gender psychology, supplemented by the presentation of some socio-psychological aspects of human sexuality.
The theoretical material is illustrated by various examples. At the end of each chapter, there are questions and tasks that allow you to better understand the content.
Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation.
It is aimed at bachelor students studying in the field of training 37.03.01 "Psychology" of all profiles, teachers of psychological faculties, as well as specialists in the field of academic and practical psychology.
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Boor, Ilja, Debby Gerritsen, Linda Greef, and Jessica Rodermans. Meaningful Assessment in Interdisciplinary Education. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463729048.
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Today’s university lecturers are faced with the challenge of educating students to see beyond the limits of their own discipline and to come up with innovative solutions to societal challenges. Many lecturers would like to put more emphasis on teaching students how to integrate diverse forms of knowledge, work together in teams, critically reflect and become self-regulated learners. These lecturers are breaking down the silos of scientific disciplines as well as the barriers between academia and society and responding to the changing role of universities in society. Just as teaching and learning are ready for change, so is assessment. In this book, we call for an assessment strategy with a greater emphasis on assessment for and assessment as learning, with a focus on giving powerful feedback and the use of authentic assessment tasks as well as alignment with the intended learning outcomes and your pedagogical beliefs. If you are looking for ways to assess integration, collaboration, reflection, and critical thinking rather than only assessing the acquisition of knowledge, the examples in this handbook are inspiring initiatives that can point you to new directions in assessment.
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Odincov, Boris. Models and intelligent systems. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1060845.
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The monograph consists of three chapters, the first of which outlines the theoretical foundations of intelligent information systems. Special attention is paid to the disclosure of the term "model" as the intended meaning depends on the understanding of the material. Introduces and examines the new concepts such as the associative and intuitive knowledge while in the creation of intellectual information systems are not used.
The second Chapter contains the analysis of problems of development of artificial intelligence (AI), developed in two directions: classical and statistical. Discusses difficulties in the development of the classical approach, associated with identifying the meaning of words, phrases, text, and formulating thoughts. The analysis of problems arising in the play of imagination and insight, machine understanding of natural language texts, play, verbalization and reflection.
The third Chapter contains examples of the development of intelligent information systems and technologies in practice of management of economic objects. Theoretical bases of construction of information robots designed to support the task hierarchy of the knowledge base and generating control regulations. The technology of their creation and application in the management of the business efficiency of enterprise business processes and its investment activities.
Focused on researchers and developers, AI and intelligent information systems, as well as graduate students and faculty in related academic disciplines.
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Tanner, Rosie, and Catherine Green. Tasks for Teacher Education: A Reflective Approach. Pearson Education, Limited, 1998.
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Tasks for Teacher Education: A Reflective Approach (Coursebook). Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1998.
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Morin, Alain. The Self-Reflective Functions of Inner Speech. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796640.003.0012.
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The current chapter revisits an earlier account (2005) of how inner speech leads to self-reflection. Definitions, functions, neuroanatomy, and measurement of self-reflection and inner speech are first presented, followed by the detailed proposal suggesting that these two processes are connected in at least three possible ways. Empirical evidence supporting this proposal is discussed, as well as theoretical considerations pertaining to underlying mechanisms explaining how self-reflection and inner speech may interrelate. To illustrate, several self-referential tasks used in typical fMRI studies show a reliable activation of the left inferior frontal gyrus—the main brain area known to sustain inner speech; inner speech can reproduce (i.e. internalize) already existing social mechanisms leading to self-reflection. Some possible philosophical and clinical implications of the role played by inner speech in self-reflection are outlined in conclusion.
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Goswami, Usha. 6. The learning brain. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199646593.003.0007.
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‘The learning brain’ looks at the influence of personal experience on how we apply logical reasoning and how we learn to detach logic from our own experience. Schooling helps children to become ‘reflective learners’. Self-reflective learning behaviour, or meta-cognitive behaviour, refers to the ability to reflect on personal information-processing skills, to monitor personal cognitive performance, and the ability to be aware of demands from different kinds of cognitive tasks. Children also learn ‘executive function’ skills, which are processes that enable a child to gain strategic control over their own mental processes. These sorts of skills have important developmental links to success in school.
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Amram, David. Reflection. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199351411.003.0029.
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Music already tells a story. Any good teacher always talks about the shape of the phrase and how that individual moment relates to the whole picture. There’s an arc to a piece of music, just like in classical theatre where there’s a beginning, a middle and an end, and within those three essential areas of any form of expression there’s a presentation of themes and variations, recapitulation, ...
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Merlo, Gia. Principles of Medical Professionalism. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780197506226.001.0001.
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Principles of Medical Professionalism will inform both future physicians and current practitioners that being a medical professional is not about being perfect, but rather about being human and recognizing our own limitations. The reader can therefore learn to manage their expectations about the profession while becoming more resilient to disruptions in the medical field such as artificial intelligence and the changing patient–doctor relationship. This book takes into consideration challenges to the uniform integration of a formal medical professionalism curriculum and addresses the critical need for support of practitioners’ professional development and identity formation throughout the various stages and transitions in their medical career. Overall, each chapter of this book aims to challenge the reader to engage in a process of self-reflection using the framework of the Gibb’s reflective cycle and provides health professionals of all levels with practical tools and techniques that will allow them to become more competent caregivers and leaders in their field. Indeed, the ultimate goal of the book is to encourage a medical educational framework supporting personal and professional transformation that may lead to more resilient and happier physicians. Thus, physicians may be better equipped to attend to the tasks of patient care that incorporate attention to healing, caring, and, compassion, while upholding their duty to serve the patient and society.
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Isserlis, Steven. Reflection. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199351411.003.0009.
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To perform a piece of music is essentially to tell a story. The task of an interpreter is that of narrator and actor; he or she must relate the tale woven by the composer, not merely portraying, but fully identifying with the characters and their fates. Music, like fiction, needs form and shape in order to be believable or moving. Needless to say, musical forms can be infinitely varied—and perhaps the word ‘story’ is confining it too closely, when so much music might as easily be perceived as a poem, a fantasy, a reverie; but whatever its nature, a composition needs the discipline of a preordained structure in order to attain the inevitability of satisfying art....
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Kahl, Wolfgang, and Ute Mager, eds. Verwaltungsaufgaben und Legitimation der Verwaltung. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748929802.
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The second volume of the Working Talks on Administrative Law is aimed at academics and practitioners who are interested in critically reflecting on developments in administrative law. The volume is dedicated to administrative tasks and the legitimacy of the administration. The change in tasks in the light of Europeanisation and globalization, the role of the administration in finding tasks, the distribution of competences between the EU and the member states, the legitimacy of the administration in Germany and the EU, questions of legitimacy of the integrated administration as well as the acceptance of administrative decisions are dealt with, in part fundamentally and in part exemplarily, from both a scientific and a practical perspective. With contributions by Prof. Dr. Martin Burgi, Susanne Diebold, Prof. Dr. Matthias Jestaedt, Prof. Dr. Ann-Katrin Kaufhold, Prof. Dr. Jens Kersten, Prof. Dr. Juliane Kokott, Walter Mölls, Judith Schamell, Prof. Dr. Bettina Schöndorf-Haubold, Dr. Jesko Schwarz, Dr. Sven Serong, Prof. Dr. Indra Spiecker genannt Döhmann and Dr. Jörg Wojahn. With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Kahl, M.A. and Prof. Dr. Ute Mager.
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Zahavi, Dan. Introspection and reflection. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199684830.003.0002.
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Rejecting the proposal that the aim of phenomenology is to provide refined descriptions of inner experiences, the chapter first discusses Husserl’s distinction between phenomenology and psychology. It next considers his employment of reflection, contrasts his position with that of Bergson, and outlines how Husserl operates with different concepts of reflection, and how a central task of phenomenological analysis is to account for the constitution of the object of consciousness. Phenomenological reflection does not only target experiential structures. It also investigates the object of experience, and the correlational a priori that holds between the experienced object and the different modes of givenness.
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Webb, Julian, Caroline Maughan, Mike Maughan, Marcus Keppel-Palmer, and Andrew Boon. Lawyers' Skills. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198838647.001.0001.
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Lawyers’ Skills helps students develop the legal skills required for successful practice in the modern solicitors’ firm. The book equips students with a solid understanding of the theory and concepts underpinning the key skills areas of legal writing and drafting, interviewing and advising, practical legal research, and advocacy, enabling students to develop, practise, and refine the legal skills they will depend on throughout their professional career. It goes beyond coverage of the assessed skills, providing guidance on a range of professional skills that should be mastered before going into practice, including effective time management, negotiation, and email etiquette. The inclusion of realistic examples from practice, tasks, and reflective exercises reflects the interactive nature of skills as a subject and encourages students to develop, practice, and refine their legal skills. Chapter summaries, diagrams, and self-test questions are also featured throughout and provide additional learning support to students. The text is essential reading for all LPC students and is also a useful source of reference for practitioners wishing to refresh their legal skills. After an introduction, the book covers: interviewing and advising; legal writing; drafting legal documents; legal research; practical problem-solving; negotiation; advocacy and the solicitor; managing your workload; and continuing your learning.
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Webb, Julian, Caroline Maughan, Mike Maughan, Marcus Keppel-Palmer, and Andrew Boon. Lawyers' Skills. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198787693.001.0001.
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Lawyers’ Skills helps students develop the legal skills required for successful practice in the modern solicitors’ firm. The book equips students with a solid understanding of the theory and concepts underpinning the key skills areas of legal writing and drafting, interviewing and advising, practical legal research, and advocacy, enabling students to develop, practise, and refine the legal skills they will depend on throughout their professional career. It goes beyond coverage of the assessed skills, providing guidance on a range of professional skills that should be mastered before going into practice, including effective time management, negotiation, and email etiquette. The inclusion of realistic examples from practice, tasks, and reflective exercises reflects the interactive nature of skills as a subject and encourages students to develop, practice, and refine their legal skills. Chapter summaries, diagrams, and self-test questions are also featured throughout and provide additional learning support to students. The text is essential reading for all LPC students and is also a useful source of reference for practitioners wishing to refresh their legal skills. After an introduction, the book covers: interviewing and advising; legal writing; drafting legal documents; legal research; practical problem-solving; negotiation; advocacy and the solicitor; managing your workload; and continuing your learning.
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Hermann, Nellie. Can Creativity Be Taught? Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199360192.003.0011.
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This chapter is a practical manual for teaching writing in unusual places. Reflective and creative writing have become widespread in healthcare settings, yet little is known about how to effectively structure writing experiences, how to respond to creative writing, and how to assess the dividends of writing practices. Written by a novelist on a medical school faculty, the chapter shows how to encourage writing in healthcare and how readers can guide writers toward the discovery potential of writing. “A Reader’s Guide for Reflective Writing” is provided to give guidance to those new to the task of reading and commenting on students’ creative writing. The chapter also provides guidelines for structuring writing seminars, choosing texts to study, and crafting the writing prompts that invite participants to write. Through extensive quotation and close reading of students’ writing, the chapter leads readers toward creative insight into the creativity of others.
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Kminek, Helge, Anna Geyer, and Markus B. Siewert, eds. Transdisciplinary Impulses towards Socio-Ecological Transformation. Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/84742569.
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Education for sustainable development should enable people to think and act in a way that is fit for the future – in the face of challenges such as climate change, environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, poverty and inequality. How can different disciplines address this task? In this volume, academic interdisciplinary contributions from philosophy, social sciences and education are complemented by transdisciplinary contributions from practical fields (e.g. museum education, journalism). The current contributions provide impulses for reflection and open up spaces for thinking in order to do justice to the complexity of the task of socio-ecological transformation.
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Balafrej, Lamia. The Making of the Artist in Late Timurid Painting. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474437431.001.0001.
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This book constitutes the first exploration of artistic self-reflection in Islamic art. In the absence of a tradition of self-portraiture, how could artists signal their presence within a painting? Centred on late Timurid manuscript painting (ca. 1470-1500), this book reveals that pictures could function as the painter’s delegate, charged with the task of centring and defining artistic work, even as they did not represent the artist’s likeness. Influenced by the culture of the majlis, an institutional gathering devoted to intricate literary performances and debates, late Timurid painters used a number of strategies to shift manuscript painting from an illustrative device to a self-reflective object, designed to highlight the artist’s imagination and manual dexterity. These strategies include visual abundance, linear precision, the incorporation of inscriptions addressing aspects of the painting and the artist’s signature. Focusing on one of the most iconic manuscripts of the Persianate tradition, the Cairo Bustan made in late Timurid Herat and bearing the signatures of the painter Bihzad, this book explores Persian manuscript painting as a medium for artistic performance and self-representation, a process by which artistic authority was shaped and discussed. In addition, each chapter explores a different theme: how painters challenged the conventions of royal representation (chapter 1); the role of writing in painting, its relation to ekphrasis and the context of the majlis (chapter 2); image, mimesis and potential world (Chapter 3); the line and its calligraphic quality (Chapter 4); signature (Chapter 5); the mobility of manuscripts (epilogue).
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Reichberg, Gregory M. Historiography of Just War Theory. Edited by Seth Lazar and Helen Frowe. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199943418.013.18.
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This chapter examines the historiography of just war theory. It starts off by showing how the concept of war has remained far from constant from one period to another and why recognition of these shifts in meaning is a prerequisite for historical reflection in this domain. Proceeding afterwards to explain why histories of the just war ‘tradition’ have been written, in what historical contexts and in view of what aims, it is shown how few of these histories have been recounted as purely descriptive exercises. Displaying the normative options that have oriented historical methodology in this field is thus a principal task of this chapter. Finally, to exhibit the salience of just war historiography for contemporary theorising, this chapter concludes with a reflection on the antecedents to our present debate on the moral equality of combatants.
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Mertens, Karl. Phenomenological Methodology. Edited by Dan Zahavi. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198755340.013.39.
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This chapter discusses how the methodological self-understanding outlined in Husserl’s early writings changes in later stages of the Phenomenological Movement. The discussion is guided by Merleau-Ponty’s short remarks in the preface of his Phenomenology of Perception about the ambiguity of the phenomenological method. Against this background, it is shown that the critical examination of the possibility of phenomenological reflection and the explanation of the idea of intentionality lead to relevant modifications and revisions of the initial assumptions concerning the phenomenological method. Particularly, the phenomenological concepts of the a priori, transcendental subjectivity, constitution, and descriptive analysis should be modified by considering the relevance of opposing aspects binding the phenomenological reflection also to facticity, the natural attitude, our life-world, and constructive moments. In addition, it is argued that the phenomenological task of offering an investigation of originary experience as a pre-linguistic and subjective experience should also be revised.
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Bontemps, Arna. Work. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037696.003.0012.
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This chapter focuses on some of the occupations of the Negroes in Illinois after the Civil War. Even after the Civil War, colored persons were mostly confined to the field of domestic and personal service—as butler, coachman, maid, cook, housekeeper, valet, or janitor. Others who were gainfully employed were found in the occupations in agricultural work and at unskilled labor. The tasks at which Negroes were employed were a reflection of the limited opportunities afforded members of the race earlier in the South and of the fierce competition they met in the North when they attempted to find employment in fields other than those to which they were traditionally attached. This chapter examines the Negro's role in Illinois employment and the racial prejudice the race encountered in seeking to carve a place in the labor market.
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Greer, Ian, Karen Breidahl, Matthias Knuth, and Flemming Larsen. Employment Services. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198785446.003.0002.
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Denmark, Germany, and Britain have marketized their employment services in different ways. This chapter introduces the tasks involved in moving jobless people into, or closer to, paid work (assessment, advice, training, job placement, and the organization of make-work schemes). In Denmark New Public Management and municipalization trends have combined to produce dramatic fluctuations in the volume of work and the rules of the market; marketization has proceeded in three waves since 2005. In Germany, there are diverse market segments reflecting the persistence of three different transaction modes in the wake of the Hartz reforms; marketization was implemented in 2002–5. In Britain, a series of privatization experiments led to the creation of a highly concentrated, centralized, and uncompetitive market, with several multinational firms managing the bulk of the market as Work Programme prime contractors; this market structure was created in 2008–11.
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Metzger, Melanie, and Cynthia Roy. Sociolinguistic Studies of Signed Language Interpreting. Edited by Robert Bayley, Richard Cameron, and Ceil Lucas. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199744084.013.0036.
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Sociolinguistic processes are inherent in the practice of interpretation. Interpreters, within seconds, receive, interpret, and reconstruct utterances between two languages, using their linguistic, social and cultural, or sociolinguistic, knowledge to create a successful, communicative exchange. This chapter describes some major and minor sociolinguistic studies of interpretation with the underlying assumption that interpretation itself constitutes a sociolinguistic activity from the moment an assignment is accepted, including the products and processes inherent to the task, reflecting variously issues of bilingualism or multilingualism, language contact, variation, language policy and planning, language attitudes, and, of course, discourse analysis.
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Rizzo, Matteo. The Politics of Labour 1. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794240.003.0004.
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Chapter 4 analyses the barriers that prevented informal bus workers from responding collectively to their criminalization and to the economic squeeze by their employers. Reflecting on the sources of workers’ power, the chapter shows how labour oversupply, its fragmentation amongst different ‘classes of labour’ performing different tasks, and geographical dispersion explain workers’ lack of effective collective response to their plight. The chapter also charts the forms and limits of existing workforce solidarity through a longitudinal study of the rise and fall (1998–2005) of a labour association by transport workers on one bus route. This study sheds light on workers’ strategies to negotiate precariousness and onto the tensions between different categories of workers. Access to the association’s membership records allows some appreciation of the patterns and rhythm of labour circulation within the sector, an important element in understanding both the precariousness faced by transport workers and their political behaviour.
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Barnard, Robert, Joseph Ulatowski, Jonathan M. Weinberg, and Bradley Armour-Garb. Thinking about the Liar, Fast and Slow. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199896042.003.0003.
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In the past, experimental philosophers have explored the psychological underpinning of a number of notions in philosophy, including free will, moral responsibility, and more. But prior to this chapter, although a number of philosophers have speculated on how ordinary folks might, or should, think about the liar paradox, no one had systematically explored the psychological underpinnings of the Liar itself. The authors take on this task. In particular, the chapter investigates the status of a liar sentence, L = ‘Sentence L is false’. The thesis, arrived at by interpreting the data the authors have accrued, is that reflective thinkers (some of whom possess a modicum of philosophical expertise) judge L to be neither true nor false (as opposed to false or true), and the authors see this as some evidence for the claim that L is neither true nor false.
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Dawid, A. Philip, Julia Mortera, and Paola Vicard. Volatility in prediction markets: A measure of information flow in political campaigns. Edited by Anthony O'Hagan and Mike West. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198703174.013.21.
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This article discusses the use of Bayesian analysis in the evaluation of temporal volatility and information flows in political campaigns. Using the 2004 US presidential election campaign as a case study, it demonstrates the utility of a model with two volatility regimes that simplifies the task of associating events with periods of high information. The article first explains why prediction markets are able to aggregate information such that the prices of future contracts are reflective of the event’s actual probability of occurring before analysing data from futures on ‘Bush wins the popular vote in 2004’, or the traded probability, of Bush winning the election. These data are used to build a measure of information flow. The results show that information flows increased as a result of the televised debates, and that these debates, along with the selection of the vice presidential candidate, increased prediction market volatility.
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Nojkina, N. V., N. A. Roslaya, T. V. Zaripova, I. V. Rusakova, and T. V. Chebykina. Organization of healthcare and public health, current issues (for heads of structural units of medical organizations). SIB-Expertise, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/er0468.12072021.
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The electronic teaching aid "Organization of health care and public health, topical issues" (for heads of structural units of medical organizations) "was developed on the basis of the qualification requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education in the specialty" Organization of Health Care and Public Health ", taking into account the professional standard "Specialist in the organization of health care and public health" in order to form the competencies of medical specialists necessary to perform the type of professional activity - management of a structural unit of a medical organization. The manual consists of 2 training modules: "Modern issues of public health and management in health care" and " Monitoring the activities of a structural unit of a medical organization ", containing the concept of a process approach in health management, principles of organization and planning of activities and a structural unit of a medical organization, a methodology for analyzing and evaluating indicators characterizing the activities of a medical organization, and indicators of public health. The manual examines the modern requirements of legislation on the protection of patients' rights, the main regulatory documents reflecting the organization of the activities of medical commissions in medical organizations, requirements for maintaining medical records, methods of motivating employees of a structural unit of a medical organization, forms and methods of planning and organizing internal quality control and safety of medical activities, as well as the organization of work with citizens' appeals. Supplementing theoretical information with questions for self-control, test tasks and situational tasks allows you to master the material qualitatively and contributes to the preservation of the acquired knowledge and competencies.
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Briggs, Andrew, Hans Halvorson, and Andrew Steane. General relativity, language, and learning. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808282.003.0010.
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General relativity is the theory of space, time, and gravity introduced by Albert Einstein. The chapter introduces the concepts of this theory, for a general reader, with a view to showing how they offer useful wider perspectives on language and learning. Space–time is an elusive reality, never directly perceived yet always the arena for what is perceived. When space–time is itself malleable and dynamic, our attempts to probe it are fraught with the difficulty that we don’t initially know even what type of question we may be asking. The empirical answers teach us what our questions really mean. This offers useful metaphors and lessons in thinking, especially to the more subtle and more demanding task of theological reflection.
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Baier, Annette. Reflexivity and Sentiment in Hume’s Philosophy. Edited by Paul Russell. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199742844.013.35.
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This contribution is concerned with what Hume means by reflection and sentiment. Hume’s Treatise is devoted to an account of the extent to which the mind is able to bear its own reflexion or turn mental states on themselves. This theme is likely the “new scene of thought” that inspired Hume’s major concerns in the Treatise. Although Hume found that the understanding fails to understand itself, the passions do better in satisfying curiosity about curiosity, and, most importantly, moral sentiment is able to approve of itself. The author contends that the whole task of the moral sentiment is to get us to fulfill our part to mankind and society, and that, according to Hume, the sentiments are the noble source of morality itself.
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Bronstein, Michaela. Rescue Work. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190655396.003.0002.
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This chapter describes the “rescue work” (Conrad) practiced by the three exemplars of recuperative modernism: James, Conrad, and Faulkner. Each asserts the continuing power of past ideals as a strategy for claiming continuity with a future readership. The thematic parallels and historical connections that unite these authors show that they consistently evoke the possibility of a disordered, meaningless existence in order to license the artistic task of attempting to make sense of the world. Rather than reflecting the slow victory of modernist skepticism over Victorian ideals, these authors become more experimental precisely in order to seek out what seems enduring through the onslaught of historical change. The narrative forms of these writers provide not training in suspicious reading, but an invitation to commitment and belief.
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Newton, Elen. Self-Care Journal: Cow Reflection 110 Pages to Do List Planner Notebook - Easily Organize Your Daily Tasks and Boost Productivity - the Perfect Daily Journal and Undated Office Supplies - Positive Quotes per Page. Independently Published, 2021.
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Patten, Alan. 25. Hegel. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198708926.003.0025.
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This chapter examines the political ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. In his Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1821), Hegel articulates his views about reason, actuality, and philosophy. For Hegel, the task of philosophy is to identify and display the reason contained in the actual institutions and practices of the social world. Hegel believes that philosophy will be able to find reason in the institutions of the social world he inhabits. After providing a short biography of Hegel, this chapter considers some of the central themes and theses of the Philosophy of Right. It also explores several basic elements in Hegel's thought, including his concept of freedom, his ideas of spirit and dialectic, and his account of the institutions of property and contract. It concludes by reflecting on Hegel's significance as a political thinker.
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Schliesser, Eric. Adam Smith’s Foundations for Political Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190690120.003.0007.
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This chapter sketches Adam Smith’s political philosophy, which is the activity of a citizen belonging to a particular community at given time and place. This project is neither exclusively descriptive nor only focused on what is commonly thought attainable. For Smith, the historical baseline of one’s time has normative significance. He does not resist changes from the status quo, but whatever changes he proposes are constrained by existing institutional arrangements. Part of the philosopher’s task is to offer visions of society that, while not impossible, are more just and more reasonable. One way in which such a vision can be offered is via historical narrative, which reveals the nature of that baseline and makes visible a second-order reflection on the ways it might be altered. In doing so, the philosopher offers an image that may speak simultaneously to one’s own society and those in others, including future ones.
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Alonso, Antonio Eduardo. Commodified Communion. Fordham University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823294121.001.0001.
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A range of contemporary theological reflection on consumer culture in the United States shares a conviction that the central task of theology is to respond, resist, or reshape consumer culture. And in many of these narratives, the location par excellence of that response is the Eucharist. Christian hope, they argue, is found in our effective cultivation of practices of everyday resistance to the market. This book argues that reducing the work of theology to resistance and centering Christian hope in a Eucharist that might better support that resistance undermines our ability to talk about the activity of God within a consumer culture, binds grace to human activity, and instrumentalizes the Eucharist into ethics. By reframing the question in terms of God’s activity in, and in spite of, consumer culture, it proposes a mode of theological reflection on consumer culture and Eucharist that sees their interrelationship in light of the unique challenges that American consumerism poses to Christian thought and practice. With an angle of vision shaped by Michel de Certeau’s insight into the tactics of everyday life and Walter Benjamin’s way of seeing “theological” wishes and desires invested in fallen commodities, it offers a lived theological account of consumer culture that recognizes not only its deceptions but also traces of truth in its broken promises and fallen hopes. And it proposes a vision of the Eucharist that takes seriously its this-worldly materiality even as it makes promises this world cannot keep.
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Mamedov, Agamaly. INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL COGNITION THEORY. COMMENTS ON THE COURSE FOR MASTER STUDENTS. LCC MAKS Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m2653.978-5-317-06781-6.
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The manual is designed primarily for motivated readers. This is what defines its unique style of presentation. It is not a «classic» textbook strictly adhering to the curriculum and work programs. The author's task was primarily to stimulate thought and intellectual reflection. The main provisions are of an author's nature, in fact, the result of many years of research. The work updates personal position on all the issues discussed. At the same time, the peculiarities of the genre (manual) dictate their limitations and rules. Therefore, all parts of the book are framed with a framework of questions and topics for discussion. At the same time, the book is considered as some field of reasoning within the subject of undergraduates on the Methodology and methodology of scientific research. Included are those sections that cause ambiguous interpretation in the literature. Relevant didactic materials are prescribed. The literature generally meets the requirements of the training course.
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Coeckelbergh, Mark. Robot Ethics. The MIT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14436.001.0001.
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A guide to the ethical questions that arise from our use of industrial robots, robot companions, self-driving cars, and other robotic devices Does a robot have moral agency? Can it be held responsible for its actions? Do humans owe robots anything? Will robots take our jobs? These are some of the ethical and moral quandaries that we should address now, as robots and other intelligent devices become more widely used and more technically sophisticated. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, philosopher Mark Coeckelbergh does just that. He considers a variety of robotics technologies and applications—from robotic companions to military drones—and identifies the ethical implications of their use. Questions of robot ethics, he argues, are not just about robots but are, crucially, about humans as well. Coeckelbergh examines industrial robots and their potential to take over tasks from humans; “social” robots and possible risks to privacy; and robots in health care and their effect on quality of care. He considers whether a machine can be moral, or have morality built in; how we ascribe moral status; and if machines should be allowed to make decisions about life and death. When we discuss robot ethics from a philosophical angle, Coeckelbergh argues, robots can function as mirrors for reflecting on the human. Robot ethics is more than applied ethics; it is a way of doing philosophy.
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Amann, Edmund, Carlos R. Azzoni, and Werner Baer, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Brazilian Economy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190499983.001.0001.
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Brazil constitutes a globally vital but troubled economy. It accounts for the largest GDP in Latin America and ranks among the world’s largest exporters of critical commodities including iron ore, soya, coffee, and beef. In recent years Brazil’s global economic importance has been magnified by a surge in both outward and inward foreign direct investment. This has served to further internationalize what has been historically a relatively closed economy. The purpose of this Handbook is to offer real insight into the Brazil’s economic development in contemporary context, understanding its most salient characteristics and analyzing its structural features across various dimensions. At a more granular level, this volume accomplishes the following tasks. First, it provides an understanding of the economy’s evolution over time and the connection of its current characteristics to this evolution. Second, it analyzes Brazil’s broader place in the global economy, and considers the ways in which this role has changed, and is likely to change, over coming years. Third, reflecting contemporary concerns, the volume offers an understanding, not only of how one of the world’s key economies has developed and transformed itself, but also of the ways in which this process has yet to be completed. The volume thus analyzes the current challenges facing the Brazilian economy and the kinds of issues that need to be tackled for these to be addressed.
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O'Shea, Janet. Risk, Failure, Play. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190871536.001.0001.
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Decried as mere brutality on display and celebrated as viscerally real, combat sport has escaped nuanced reflection. Risk, Failure, Play addresses this gap, signaling the many ways in which competitive martial arts differentiate themselves from violence through risk-based play. Despite its association with frivolity and ease, play is not the opposite of danger, rigor, or failure. Indeed, Risk, Failure, Play demonstrates the ways in which physical recreation allows us to manage the complexities of our current social reality. This book suggests that play gives us the ability to manage difficult conditions with intelligence and that physical play, with its immediacy and its heightened risk, is particularly effective at accomplishing this task. Presented from the perspective of a dancer and writer, this book takes readers through considerations of the politics of everyday life exemplified in martial arts practices such as jeet kune do, Brazilian jiu jitsu, kickboxing, Filipino martial arts, and empowerment self-defense. Risk, Failure, Play intertwines personal experience with phenomenology, social psychology, dance studies, performance studies, and theories of play and competition in order to produce insights on pleasure, mastery, vulnerability, pain, agency, individual identity, and society. Ultimately, this book suggests that play allows us to rehearse other ways to live than the ones we see before us, challenging us to reimagine our social reality.
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Županov, Ines G., ed. The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190639631.001.0001.
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The chapters in the Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits deal with close to five hundred years of history of the Society of Jesus, a transnational, polyglot Catholic religious order of men, which rose vertiginously to prominence from the mid-sixteenth century until its suppression in 1773. Following this unprecedented event in Church history was its equally unprecedented Restoration in 1814. What held this corporate Jesuit body together through a series of historically documented successes, adjustments, crises and persecutions, and made it continuously cohere around a set of common ideals, commitments and practices? Was it a sense of a “higher goal” cultivated through methodical self-questioning taught by Spiritual Exercises and by observing the rules written in the Constitutions? Toolkits of subjection and subjectivity, fostering discipline as well as collective effervescence among both the Jesuits and their lay supporters - and their enemies - are analyzed in this volume through major topics, events and institutions. Thorn between private and public, religious and secular, “us” and “them”, the Jesuits perfected the art of introspection and the reflection on strategies and mechanisms on how to link individual to society. Today as in the past, even though the Jesuits were and are under obligation to think and act for the Catholic Church, in executing their tasks they exceeded and widened the strictly ecclesiastical boundaries and made major contributions to the secular culture. In the last forty years, in particular, the problem of social justice and ecologically responsible global order are invoked as the most urgent Jesuit concerns. A comprehensive analysis regarding the manner in which the Jesuits set up, acted on, described and analyzed, and they still do, the intercultural and transnational networks - invigorating projects as questionable as the Inquisition, slavery and conversion, as innovative and experimental as accommodation, inculturation and social justice, as useful as education and scholarship - is offered in this volume by more than forty authors, senior and young experts in the field, three of whom are Jesuits themselves.